I'm using RTE 4.08. I can insert special characters in the edit window, save the result in a file, open it again in RTE and the characters are displayed just fine. I cannot - however - work out the settings to display the special characters outside of RTE, so when displaying the edited file directly in the browser. When using IE one can select the encoding via the right mouse button. Utf-8 is selected (as intended). Only if I select 'Western Europe' the characters are displayed correctly. Adding <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> to the file does not help. So I'm stuck and help would be highly appreciated.
In trying to solve this problem, I also tried to use the HTML escape sequences (eg € for the euro symbol). Funny thing is that these are directly replaced by the non-asci symbol for the euro, once the file is edited in RTE. Yet I cannot find the code responsible for this.